Business continuity and disaster recovery

Case Project 12-3 – Research Disaster Recovery Solutions Justin W. Smith Central Texas College ITNW1358 Iron Mountain vs Amazon Web Services What are the key features? • Iron Mountain Since 1951, Iron Mountain has been established as a disaster recovery solution for over six decades. Today, Iron Mountain specializes in tape and other physical backup solutions but in recent years has begun to push towards a Cloud DRaaS (Disaster Recovery as a Service) platform to compete with competitors such…

Executive Summary: Supply Chain Management at Nissan Amidst a Natural Disaster Introduction One of the most devastating examples of supply chain disruption can be seen from the natural disasters that hit Japan in March 2011. The damage from a major earthquake and its side effects including a tsunami, blackouts, and fuel shortages caused operational shutdowns in Japan’s second largest automobile manufacturer; Nissan. The Nissan operational suspensions were not only a result of local assembly…

(a) IT disaster recovery team The CEO and/or the Operations Manager will assemble an IT disaster recovery team to appraise the damage to the IT systems. This team will represent Zagga’s efforts to recover from an IT disaster. Members of the team will include the Operations Manager and such other Staff as he considers required. (b) Plan of action The disaster recovery team will do any or all of the following in any order or timeframe considered appropriate: • Establish a reasonably located…

disclosure of business information or confidential is important to contractually stipulate this matter or by non-disclosure agreement. In addittion, provisions regarding disaster recovery are commonly ignored . Although, it is fundamental to preview disaster recovery and business continuity strategies in the outsourcing contract. Last, but no least, there is an important behaviour that may help to overcome some of the outsourcing failures . In order to have an evolving and long term business…

Datacentre. The Appliance too offers Backup to Disk technology and provides the ability to archive directly from the appliance to Quorum Datacentre. Included in the solution is Disaster Recovery with the ability to retain servers in warm standby (passive) so you are able to instantly bring these online if Disaster Recovery (DR) was ever evoked. This type of solution is similar to our existing Plan-B but provides an all in one backup and DR. The benefits of Quorum is that they support both…

one-time expense. Lawyers are sometimes necessary to write new contracts and to review policies and procedures to ensure the business is in compliance with the law. The money paid to the lawyers would also be considered a one-time expense. The last example of a one-time expense would be the hiring of or working with vendors that test network vulnerabilities and disaster recovery…

How to fight Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS)? Denial of Service attacks can turn your entire organization upside down. It is almost like experiencing a worst, unpredictable disaster. Over the past few years, Denial of Service attacks made to the headlines several times and have always been frustrating the IT professionals. It’s great that each day technology is taking new phases and flourishing its potentiality, but the advancing field is also becoming a growing opportunity for invaders to…

should be an organization’s governance. This entails good communication on all levels, thorough and accurate documentation of policies, and cross-functional coordination. Next, there are four important pillars to consider: 1. Strategy 2. Technology 3. Business Operations 4. Risk and Compliance Strategy refers to having an established plan on how businesses should handle any cyber incident they may come in contact with. There should be an established plan on how to communicate with customers when…

Developing the plan The importance of having an IT recovery plan has grown so much that the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) published a special publication outlining a federal standard for these plans, NIST Special Publication 800-34. This standard highlighted seven key steps required in building a successful plan. Planning Steps: Policy Directive The first five steps are related to the actual development of the plan. The first step is to create the policy directive,…

Background An Executive Advisor within KPMG’s regulatory practice, Camille has over 12 years financial services experience, principally within the retail sector working with or for a range of firms including retail banks, investment management, insurance and warranty companies advising them on their regulatory/ legal issues and interactions. Professional and Industry Experience Consultancy experience: More recently, Camille has worked on a number of Skilled Persons reports into compliance…